Brian Eno on Voices
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The instrument in question is the Roland VP-550, and it's been around for several years. Its function is halfway between a vocoder and an autotuner; you sing or speak into a microphone (or other external input) connected to the instrument, then play notes on a standard synth keyboard. The vocals are pitch-changed to match the keys, and used to "color" synthesized voices and strings. Search on "Roland VP-550" for some demos if you're curious.
I have one of these. Good fun.
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Heh. Brian Eno forecasts a fad that's going to plague pop music in the next four years after this video was put out.
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@kaligula11 lol shutup
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@redchant you decide
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1:08 is that a fly or did someone fart
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Doesn't autotune make all voices sound like robots rather than angels?
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@nicohhog, well, but Cher is a commercial puppet and a joke. Eno is an artist. BIg difference. I think how she used it and how he used it are very different things.
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@dantedraco wowwwwwwwww, hope you're trollin!
Fantastic and really innovative things with voices were done by Jean Michel Jarre on his album Zoolook. He used samples in a way that makes modern sample-using childish.
kaligula11 3 years ago 12
What if the only things Vincent van Gogh painted were self portraits? That's what singers do with their songs if they inject too much of their personality into it. After a while it just gets boring.
zimmerface 2 years ago 11